We Showed Up (feat. Christine Ahn)

Summary

The Daily Beans: Episode Summary - "We Showed Up (feat. Christine Ahn)"

Podcast Information

• Title: The Daily Beans
• Host/Author: MSW Media
• Description: The Daily Beans is a women-owned and operated progressive news podcast tailored for your morning commute, featuring the Webby award-winning host Allison Gill and comedian/activist Dana Goldberg. It delivers social justice and political news with the perfect touch of snark.
• Episode: We Showed Up (feat. Christine Ahn)
• Release Date: June 16, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of The Daily Beans, hosts Allison Gill and Dana Goldberg delve into a whirlwind of pressing political events and social movements shaping the United States. From tragic acts of violence to massive peaceful protests, the hosts provide insightful commentary and engage in meaningful discussions with special guest Christine Ahn from the Feminist Peace Initiative.

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Major News Topics

1. Minnesota Legislative Assassinations

A shocking and tragic event unfolded in Minnesota where a MAGA extremist, Vance Bolter, impersonating law enforcement, fatally shot two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses.

• Allison Gill [09:05]: "He remains at large on Sunday, 57-year-old Vance Bolter... authorities said he impersonated a police officer to gain access to the home of state Rep. Melissa Hortman."

2. No Kings Protests: Massive Turnout and Peaceful Demonstrations

The weekend saw millions of Americans rallying in the No Kings protests, demonstrating widespread opposition to former President Trump and his administration.

• Dana Goldberg [01:17]: "The rally downtown drew over 25,000 people... it felt joyful and hopeful."
• Allison Gill [02:11]: "We had over 60,000 people. That number might be revised upward toward 85,000 here in San Diego."

Despite threats from authorities and an ongoing manhunt for Bolter, the protests remained peaceful with zero arrests or property damage, showcasing the community's resilience and commitment to non-violence.

• Dana Goldberg [11:02]: "No Kings rallies... were very, very peaceful, joyous and community."

3. Trump's Military Birthday Parade: A Symbol of Mismanagement

President Trump's military birthday parade was a major focus, expecting over 200,000 attendees but only attracting around 30,000 due to poor organization and public disinterest.

• Allison Gill [30:46]: "They were expecting over 200,000 people, but only got like 30,000... an embarrassing look for the administration."

The event was mocked for its lackluster turnout and ineffective execution, including humorous comparisons to outdated movie scenes.

• Dana Goldberg [08:52]: "Imagine a tank rolling down the street, silent and squeaky... Trump even looks miserable at this thing."

4. Militarization of the U.S. Border and Local Law Enforcement

The episode highlights alarming increases in the militarization of the U.S. border and local law enforcement agencies.

• Dana Goldberg [18:28]: "This is fucked up."
• Allison Gill [22:52]: "This is the first known detention by active duty troops deployed there by President Trump."

Stories include U.S. troops detaining immigrants in designated defense zones, and Marines temporarily detaining a civilian in Los Angeles, raising concerns about the erosion of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits military involvement in civilian law enforcement.

5. ICE Detention Facility Escapes

Escapees from a private ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, exacerbate the ongoing issues with privatized detention facilities.

• Allison Gill [23:05]: "Delaney hall was the scene of a disturbance... detainees escaped by breaking through drywall and mesh barriers."

Local officials like Mayor Ras Baraka and Rep. Lamonica McIver continue to battle against inhumane conditions in these facilities, despite resistance from private operators like GEO Group.

6. House Budget Vote: Funding Cuts to PBS and NPR

The House narrowly approved legislation to eliminate two years of federal funding for public media outlets PBS and NPR, following pressure from President Trump who criticized these organizations for alleged bias.

• Allison Gill [25:15]: "The House approved it 214 to 212, largely along party lines... reflecting a list of cuts totaling $9.4 billion."

This move signifies a broader trend of undermining public media and reflects the administration's attempts to control the narrative against conservative viewpoints.

7. NYC Mayoral Race: Cross Endorsement & Ranked Choice Voting

Progressive candidates Zoran Mamdani and Brad Lander in New York City's mayoral race endorse each other to leverage the ranked choice voting system, aiming to surpass incumbent Andrew Cuomo.

• Allison Gill [29:56]: "The partnership effectively turns Mamdani and Lander into a joint entry... hoping neither will receive 50% initially, thereby transferring votes to ensure one of them wins."
• Dana Goldberg [30:29]: "Ranked choice voting allows primary voters to list up to five candidates... this strategic endorsement helps build momentum against Cuomo."

This collaboration highlights strategic maneuvering within progressive politics to navigate complex electoral systems favorably.

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Interview with Christine Ahn: Feminist Peace Initiative

Special guest Christine Ahn, founder of Women Cross DMZ and a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses her organization's efforts to end the Korean War and promote women's leadership in peacebuilding.

Key Points from Christine Ahn:

• Historic Peace Walk (05:55): In 2015, Christine organized a Peace Walk from North to South Korea, involving 30 international women, including Gloria Steinem.
• Create Peace Now Campaign (32:54): Advocates for congressional resolutions like the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act to formally end the Korean War, urging the U.S. to take responsibility as a signatory to the armistice.
• Feminist Peace Playbook (40:48): A strategic document advocating for reallocating funds from militarization to policies that meet basic human needs, emphasizing the interconnectedness of domestic security and foreign policy.
• Critique of Militarism (42:55): Highlights the excessive allocation of the U.S. budget to the Pentagon and related agencies, arguing for a shift towards investment in community and domestic welfare.

Christine emphasizes the importance of redefining U.S. foreign policy to prioritize care and cooperation over militarism, aligning with broader movements to resist authoritarianism and promote democratic values.

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Good News Highlights

The episode transitions into a segment celebrating listener-submitted good news, featuring successful No Kings rallies across various states, peaceful protests, and uplifting community stories.

Notable Submissions:

• Lancaster, PA (55:38): A turnout of around 4,000 people in a traditionally rural and red county, showcasing significant community support.

  • Dana Goldberg [55:38]: "Lancaster showed that we are ready to show up for the rest of the country in future elections."

• Nampa, Idaho (59:05): A successful No Kings Day rally with a large turnout and minimal police intervention.

  • Dana Goldberg [59:08]: "The afternoon was uneventful, despite the Trump train passing twice."

• First-Time Protestors (Various Times): Stories of families, children, and diverse demographics participating in protests, reinforcing the movement's broad support.

  • Allison Gill [53:00]: "This little place... Turnout was huge... over 2000... commented on the absence of counter-protesters."

Listeners also shared adorable pet photos and family moments, adding a personal and heartwarming touch to the segment.

Listener Feedback:

• Anonymous Pronoun She/Her [55:08]: Appreciation for the podcast's support, sharing personal stories of adoption and the importance of visual memories for foster children.
• Elizabeth Pronouns She/Her [59:15]: Emotional recount of attending her first protest and the sense of community it fostered.

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Conclusion

The episode wraps up with a reinforcement of the show's mission to provide a platform for progressive voices, encourage civic participation, and celebrate community resilience. Hosts Allison Gill and Dana Goldberg commend listeners for their active participation in protests and community events, emphasizing the power of collective action in shaping a just and equitable society.

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Notable Quotes

• Allison Gill [11:02]: "People showed up anyway. It is impressive and courageous."
• Dana Goldberg [18:28]: "This is fucked up."
• Christine Ahn [42:55]: "We have to start building... militarism is one thing that we really have to see impacting all aspects of our lives."

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Final Notes This episode of The Daily Beans provides a comprehensive look into the current political climate, highlighting both the struggles and the unwavering spirit of resistance among American communities. Through informed discussions and heartfelt listener stories, the podcast underscores the importance of unity and proactive engagement in the face of adversity.

For more information and to join the conversation, visit mswmedia.com.

Transcript

[Alison Gill]

MSW Media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Monday, June 16, 2025. Today, a MAGA extremist posing as law enforcement shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses Saturday morning. Millions of Americans took to the streets this weekend for the no Kings protests. While Trump's military birthday parade was a bust, detainees rose up and some escaped from the private ICE detention facility that Ras Baraka and Lamonica McIver were arrested for trying to inspect. The House has voted to kill funding for PBS and npr. Mamdani and Lander Cross endorse one another in the New York City mayoral race. Marines carried out the first known detention of a civilian in Los Angeles. And U.S. troops begin detaining people in the national defense zone at the border. I'm Alison Gill.

[Dana Goldberg]

And I'm Dana Goldberg.

[Alison Gill]

Hi, Dana. Happy Monday. How are you?

[Dana Goldberg]

I am. I'm good. I'm good. You know, I saw the photos from your rally that you hosted in San Diego. I saw the photos from all around the country. I mean, there were so many rallies, kings rallies in la, that they were all split up. But the one downtown drew over 25,000 people. I was in West Hollywood. It just felt, obviously, other than the unnecessarily violence, mostly coming from people who are supposed to protect us, it felt joyful and hopeful, and it was really a sight to see.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. I have to say, when we recorded our episode for Friday, I think we were in a different country than we are in the one that we wake up to this Monday for a couple of reasons. First of all, the assassinations in Minnesota, which we'll talk about horrifying, but also the no Kings rally. Everybody came out, everybody showed up. We had over 60,000 people. That number might be revised upward toward 85,000 here in San Diego.

[Dana Goldberg]

Wow.

[Alison Gill]

And the San Diego Police Department, I didn't see one single cop on the route. No ice, no nothing. They stayed out of it. And it showed because there were zero arrests, zero property damage. And the police put out a statement thanking us for being so peaceful and clean and awesome because we didn't, like, trash the streets or anything.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah.

[Alison Gill]

And so I thought it was all very successful. I also want to say, as much as I love seeing these massive turnouts in major cities, I think what I love even more are these small rural towns and townships where we're, relatively speaking, more people as a percentage of their population turned out and showed up.

[Dana Goldberg]

Absolutely. I mean, we have some listeners that send messages to me with photos, like 4,000 people showing up in red parts of Virginia Yeah.

[Alison Gill]

And I think that that, that, like, just really, I love that. Also, I wanted to draw everybody's attention to your day of the day, Sunday. And then, of course, you have one today, Monday. But the. The story of Cashier.

[Dana Goldberg]

Oh, my gosh.

[Alison Gill]

In the Civil War on Sunday for the Gay of the Day. Just absolutely incredible piece of history.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah. Thank you so much, Elsa. I mean, for those of you that are watching it and commenting and sharing, you really are educating so many people on LGBTQ heroes then and now that some people don't know about. So if you're not talking about. I started an online series called Gay of the Day for PRIDE Month. And it's not just the gays, it's all the LGBTQ heroes. But you can see that on my Instagram, which is dgcomedy. Give it a follow and some shares. It's much appreciated. And on all the other social media platforms as well. But, yeah, Arthur Cashier. Basically, he fought in 40 Civil War battles as a man and identified as such his entire life until he had gotten discovered. And I don't want to give the whole story away, so just check out the video. But I'm super excited about today's as you're listening, because it is no one other than Sally Ride.

[Alison Gill]

Yes. Man, she was incredible. What a hero, right?

[Dana Goldberg]

I know everything she did for women and young girls and STEM and all the glass ceilings she shattered. And I love how she came out. It was super subtle. So watch the video, find out more about Sally, things you might not know, and have a couple laughs while you learn about history.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. Thank you so much for doing that series. Later in the show today, I'll be talking with Christine on. She's incredible. She's from the Feminist Peace Initiative, and I want to introduce all of our listeners to her. So back to the no King stuff, because first of all, I want to talk about. You texted me a sign. I want to talk about my best friend. Your best friend's sign, which is, by the way, making the rounds on the Internet. I've seen it in completely unrelated spaces with totally unrelated people.

[Dana Goldberg]

She got texts from people in New Zealand, and Jojo from Jersey shared it. You shared it? Yeah, yeah.

[Alison Gill]

Talk about her. Talk about her sign.

[Dana Goldberg]

Oh, my gosh. Oh. So my best friend. Okay, I'm just, you know, excuse the word. I know some people don't love it, but for these all intents and purposes, I'm just going to say it. So literally, her sign just said, here's a poem about gnome. She shot her dog. She's a cunt. People thought it was a limerick. Not so much the haiku. She was trying to get it there, but it wasn't. But it's just one of those things that there's no lies detected. Anyone who shoots their own puppy, something wrong with them.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. And I think my favorite part, I don't know if this is intentional or not, but there was a lot of room at the bottom. Like, the poem could have gone on, but it didn't. It didn't.

[Dana Goldberg]

And in person, it's bedazzled where it says, yeah, she shot her dog. She's a cunt. It's all in, like, these little cute little gems, gemstones.

[Alison Gill]

She vazzled it.

[Dana Goldberg]

Old men, old women were coming up to her at the rally. Can I take a picture of that? You're my favorite sign. I mean it. That's the other thing, is that I was watching all these people in the older generation looking at them going, they must be so fucking tired of having to protest this shit. They've been doing this for decades. Before me, before you, before us, and we stand on their shoulders. But, man, these veterans that are out there too, like in their 80s and 90s being like, you gotta be kidding. But they're still doing it. They're still doing it.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. And I noticed also there were tons of young people and kids, pets. And I mean, it was just a massive spectrum of all sorts of demographics. It was. It was fantastic to see.

[Dana Goldberg]

One of my favorite signs, Alison, was someone that said, you made an Asian person stand out in the sun. You monster.

[Alison Gill]

I like the Oligargal. My balls and National Guard D's nuts, I think were two of my. They went together. I posted them together at the same time. Yeah.

[Dana Goldberg]

Kristen Key, one of my favorite comics. We gotta have her on the show, actually, for an interview, but she posted that too. On her. On her. There was just some joy. There was a lot of creativity. I'm telling you right now, man, there are some funny people out in this world.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. And now let's talk about Trump's parade. Because, first of all, it rained. So we were successful on controlling the weather. We had our deep state meeting and we set up the space laser.

[Dana Goldberg]

And yep, all the Jewish people were invited to see if we could set that up and control the weather.

[Alison Gill]

And yeah, as a gentile, I'm not allowed to operate the space laser, but.

[Dana Goldberg]

Right. That is just for us.

[Alison Gill]

Yes, exactly. I'm not a chosen one for the space laser. It's fine. But, you know, I support the infrastructure, so I was really, I was happy to announce that that went off without a hitch. Thunderstorms and lightning. They had tried to move the parade up so that they would miss it, the weather, but it was just okay. I think my favorite thing that I've seen is it's almost somebody. Somebody compared it to like if an old 80s movie, if Jim Belushi hijacked a tank and, and it's rolling down the street and there's like maybe 5% of the bleachers are filled. If that.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah.

[Alison Gill]

And it's silent and the tank is just squeaky, squeaky, squeaky dudes.

[Dana Goldberg]

So good. No music. Rubio's yawning. Trump even looks miserable at this thing. And he sat there for hours and watched it for his little inflated ego. And he just looks so unhappy. I just. But that's a sad, pathetic life he's living.

[Alison Gill]

That's Squeaky tank. Do we have that clip? Let me see if we have that clip. I just, it kills me. The only thing that would make it better is like if there were some guy in it with a tuba, you know, like playing as it rolled down the street. WD40 army. The images are the opposite of what Trump wanted and I love that for him. So.

[C]

Yeah.

[Dana Goldberg]

And I mean, I know not everything. Alison and I have been a little jovial, obviously at the top of this hour, but there was a horrifying, horrifying execution. It was a tragedy in Minnesota.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah, yeah. And police have identified the shooter, but I believe he's still at large as of the recording of this podcast. He remains at large on Sunday, 57 year old Vance Bolter, I think is, how you say his name. But authorities said he actually impersonated a police officer to gain access to the home of state Rep. Melissa Hortman, 55 year old Democratic leader, former speaker of the Minnesota House. She and her husband Mark were murdered, fatally shot. The suspect is also probably the perpetrator and obviously the perpetrator of the shooting of state Senator John Hoffman, who's 60, and his wife Yvette in their home in a suburb farther north, according to his roommate. Because this guy Bolter lived in like Sleepy Eye in Minnesota, but he had an apartment with a roommate in town. And his roommate said this guy was a huge Trump supporter, He voted for President Trump, he was against abortion. He's basically a white Christian nationalist. Apparently. He had no Kings flyers in his car which looked like just wrote no kings on an 8 and a half by 10 piece of paper and then xeroxed it. I think that's to make people think he was at the no Kings rally. I'm not sure.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah.

[Alison Gill]

Because there was a list of targets found in the car at one of the victims homes. And they're all Democrats. The whole list is all Democrats, pro choice advocates and Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota. A second car, I guess belonging to him was found Sunday about 60 miles away from the shootings. So it looks like he was. Law enforcement says he looks like he's probably trying to flee the state. So I don't know. But what I think is important and noteworthy is that they had called to cancel. They said we should cancel the no Kings marches in Minnesota because the guy was still at large and they were afraid he would show up at the marches.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah.

[Alison Gill]

But people showed up anyway. People showed up.

[Dana Goldberg]

It is impressive and courageous. Everything that we're doing is a sign of resistance. And I'm glad, for the most part, the no Kings rallies, at least on the side of the protesters, like I said, were very, very peaceful, joyous and community. It was impressive. But things like this are meant to deter people from standing up and fighting for this democracy. And my heart goes out to these families and that community. I hope that he is found by the time we're recording this right now, we don't believe he has been, but we are hoping that the manhunt continues.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. And you know, everybody showed up despite that threat and the threat of ICE and the threat of the military in Los Angeles. And I think that that really shows a lot of, like you said, courage, moral conviction and I think it helps create a permission structure for people. There were so many first time protesters.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah.

[Alison Gill]

Out this weekend. Just good to see. It was a different feeling from most other rallies that I've attended.

[Dana Goldberg]

I agree.

[Alison Gill]

Do you know what I mean? A lot more righteous anger.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yes.

[Alison Gill]

Than I've seen before. But again, very peaceful and amazing to be around. I've never spoken in front of more than I think 500 people at a time. So to be there with 60,000 plus people was just something I'll never forget.

[Dana Goldberg]

Good. Yeah. Those moments are pretty incredible. The first time that Trump stole the election from the American people in 2016, the Pride parade in LA turned into a protest march and a rally. It was a hundred thousand people. I got to kick that one off in la. And there is something special. It is mind blowing. I love that you got that. No one else should have been on that stage. Alison, you've earned that spot. And I'm sure that everyone in that audience heard your words and appreciated. Appreciated Everything that you've done.

[Alison Gill]

Oh, thanks. I'm just, I was so grateful to, to be able to be part of it, honestly. And like I said, all of these small towns showing up, just, just fantastic. Well done, everyone. Just well done. And we had that great no Kings, Just Queens Drag Queen Bingo event for patrons right after. So great to see all of you and meet you and talk to you and I appreciate you coming out and indulging me and my good friend Miriam T. I just felt like, you know what? I wanna, I want Drag Queen bingo and a tuna melt.

[Dana Goldberg]

Like we should have Drag Queen bingo everywhere.

[Alison Gill]

And I, I think I drank like a gallon of Diet Coke. I was so, so thirsty and be stung and tired. I got stung by a bee. That was the only violence at the, at the entire march.

[Dana Goldberg]

We gotta have a no bees rally.

[Alison Gill]

Yes, I'm covered in bees. We have yes. No bees, please. And I tried to matrix it like, like I saw him coming at me kind of slow motion and I feel bad that he had to deploy his stinger, but I, you know, he got caught in my hair, so he was probably freaked out. And then somebody stopped and helped me. They pulled the stinger out for me. Oh, and then another person, while she's the really nice lady, was pulling the stinger out, came up and said, hey, Mueller, can I get a photo? So I'm taking a photo. Somewhere on the Internet is a photo of me having a stinger removed from my back.

[Dana Goldberg]

Oh my God.

[Alison Gill]

And like, hey, so that that photo exists somewhere. If that's you, send it into the good news.

[Dana Goldberg]

Seriously, someone's got to. I love that. This was like our longest intro ever and we haven't even gotten to the news.

[Alison Gill]

Nope. We haven't even gotten to the hot notes. We should do that. But let's take a quick break, so stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.

[Dana Goldberg]

We'll be right back.

[Alison Gill]

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[Dana Goldberg]

This is fucked up.

[Alison Gill]

Troops are prohibited from conducting civilian law enforcement on U.S. soil under the Posse Comitatus Act. But an exception known as the military purpose doctrine allows it in some instances. Authorities, quote, noticed three individuals crossing the protective barrier in the United States. That's what the guy Campbell said. A Department of Defense response went to interdict those three individuals. Interdict. Told them to sit down. Is that a legal term? Like, we, we didn't arrest them, we interdicted them, Told him to sit down.

[Dana Goldberg]

You know, as a lesbian, I'm not commenting on this word.

[Alison Gill]

Probably not. He said sit down. In a matter of three minutes, Border Patrol came to actually arrest them. So that three minutes is that temporary detention by the military. Right. Trump has designated two national military defense areas along the southern US border for New Mexico and a 60 mile stretch of western Texas from El Paso to Fort Hancock while transferring much of the land from the Interior Department overseen by Doug Burgum. Is that who that guy is? To the Department of Defense for a period of three years. And they plan to add more militarized zones along the border. That's according to a military spokesman. And this reminds me of, I went to Germany as an Exchange student in 1990, right after the Berlin Wall came down. And they had this thing around the Berlin Wall called no Man's land.

[Dana Goldberg]

Oh, interesting.

[Alison Gill]

Where if you were caught trying to cross out of East Berlin into, you know, the free world, you were shot. That was a. Or the dmz, Right.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah.

[Alison Gill]

These militarized zones remind me of, of that.

[Dana Goldberg]

I can understand why. And it sounds insane that they can just make up the borders of this.

[Alison Gill]

They come, they, they take the land away from the Interior Department because they have A puppet heading up the Interior Department and turn it into a militarized zone where they're allowed to detain people. That's, frankly, that's frightening to me.

[Dana Goldberg]

It is frightening. And it also happened in Los Angeles. This one's from Reuters. The Marines that got deployed to Los Angeles, they temporarily detained a civilian on Friday. This should have never happened. The US Military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images. After they were like, oh, we've got fucking pictures. In this first known detention by active duty troops deployed there by President Trump. The incident took place at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, where Marines took charge of the mission to protect the building earlier on Friday in a rare domestic use of US Troops after days of protests over immigration raids. Reuters images. They showed Marines apprehending the man, restraining his hands with zip ties and then handing him over to civilians from the Department of Homeland Security. Asked about the incident, the US Military's Northern Command spokesperson said active duty forces, quote, may temporarily detain an individual in specific circumstances. Any temporary detention ends immediately when the individual can be safely transferred to the custody of appropriate civilian law enforcement personnel. This is what a spokesperson said now, speaking to reporters after he was released. The civilian identified himself as Marcos Liao. He's 27. And Liao said he was an army veteran on his way to an office of the Department of Veterans affairs when he crossed a yellow tape boundary and was asked to stop. And interestingly enough, he also happens to be a black gentleman.

[Alison Gill]

I worked there. I worked at the Wilshire va. The federal building is right kind of across the street there. This is like the Greenwood neighborhood. This is like sepulveda and the 405.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah. This is in downtown, by the way, where, you know, all of these protests are happening.

[Alison Gill]

This is near Marina, the Marina, Culver City, Wilshire area. And he was going to the va and so I guess what. I guess what is happening in Trump's mind is that if it's a federal building, that's kind of like that militarized zone right on the border. It's. It's mine, and he can do what he wants. There's an exception to the Posse Comitatus act in those areas. Just truly unbelievable. And that is the. That is the first known detention.

[Dana Goldberg]

Exactly.

[Alison Gill]

Because now we've got, on Sunday morning, we have active duty military raiding a swap meet with ice. Like just indescribable terror.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah.

[Alison Gill]

Anyway, this is from the post. Four detainees have escaped from an immigration detention facility in Newark. That's according to dhs. The men escaped from Delaney hall, that's a privately run New Jersey detention facility that local elected officials have sought to close since before it began receiving detainees in May. This is an ongoing problem with this detention center. If Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey said the men broke through a drywall and mesh barrier they're keeping. It's a detention center made of drywall and wire mesh. Quote, somebody kicked down the wall that wasn't supposed to be there. That's what Baraka, who was, by the way, arrested in May after trying to enter that facility to inspect it. That's what he told the Post. The exact timing of the escape is unclear. Delaney hall was also the scene of a disturbance on Thursday, last Thursday, as demonstrators protesting conditions at the facility were facing off with law enforcement officers. According to an immigration advocate present, who provided a video of the scene to the Washington Post. Baraka said there was some disorder among the detainees over delayed and inadequate food on Thursday, which prompted protesters to gather outside a visitor gate. GEO Group, which runs the Thousand bed detention center and is one of the largest private prison operators in the United States, told the Post it's cooperating with law enforcement to find the escapees, not to fix conditions.

[Dana Goldberg]

Nope.

[Alison Gill]

Quote. The safety and security of the Delaney hall facility and our neighbors, not the people in it in the local community, is our top priority. Of course it is. That's the spokesperson for the private prison group Delaney hall has been the center of controversy, as we know. Baraka, along with Rep. Lamonic MacGyver, he was arrested, she was arrested, and he was charged in May after trying to visit the facility, which he's been trying to shut down following a lot of complaints of inhumane conditions. And this month, Baraka sued Trump and, well, excuse me, not him personally, but his interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, former parking lot lawyer Alina Haba, claiming that the arrest was politically motivated and the charges against Baraka were dropped. But the state's top prosecutor announced Tuesday that MacIver had been indicted. We talked about that.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah, we covered that. We covered that on previous episode. It's all insane over there. This one's from npr. The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for public media outlets. It did so at the direct request of Trump, who has accused NPR and PBS of bias against conservative viewpoints as part of his broader attacks on the mainstream media. Those are called facts and truth. Now, the measure passed largely along party lines, 214 to 212, with two key Republican lawmakers switching their votes from no to yes to push it over the finish line. Wonder what those conversations entailed. The legislation is the first request by the Trump administration for Congress to claw back money it already had approved. This is through annual spending bills. The bill reflects a list of cuts totaling $9.4 billion that were requested by the Office of Management and Budget. The bulk of the cuts, 8.3 billion. Those are to foreign aid programs addressing global public health, international disaster assistance, and hunger relief. So it's just gross mismanagement of money and I think decisions that this administration didn't have a right to make without Congress's approval.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah, well, they approved it and we'll see if the Senate does the same.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yep.

[Alison Gill]

Here's a little bit of good news. Well, it's a good filing. Let's say that it's from the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition. They've asked a federal judge to hold the Trump administration in contempt for defying a court order requiring the government to release funding for foreign aid. The AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition writes in their court document that the defendants, the Trump administration, has not complied with the preliminary injunction. The court's order was clear. Defendants were ordered to cease unlawfully impounding funds and to make those funds available for obligation. Defendants were further directed to, quote, take all steps necessary to effectuate that order. The defendants have taken no steps to comply. Further, the defendants have obfuscated their non compliance by filing months worth of weekly status reports claiming that they, quote, continue to evaluate the appropriate, appropriate next steps to address compliance with the impoundment portion of the preliminary injunction, quote, at some point, the court must lean forward from the bench to let an agency know in no uncertain terms that enough is enough. That point is now. Accordingly, plaintiffs request that the court order the defendants to file within five days a plan for compliance with the preliminary injunction. If the defendants do not do so, or if the plan fails to show compliance, the court should hold the defendants in contempt and impose sanctions for their continued non compliance. So we'll keep you posted on that potential contempt of court.

[Dana Goldberg]

All right. And this one I see is a little bit of good news. So I'm gonna try and give this here, right? It's cool news.

[Alison Gill]

It makes me want ranked choice voting.

[Dana Goldberg]

Here in California and not everywhere because it's not always a great thing. But this is a good story about it. This is from New York's mayor's race. And this is also from the Times. Zoran Mandani and Brad Lander. Those are the leading progressive candidates in the Democratic primary for mayor in New York right now. They cross endorsed each other on Friday, creating a late stage partnership designed to help one of them surpass former governor Andrew Cuomo in ranked choice balloting. This is so smart. The candidates who are second and third in the polls behind Cuomo encourage their supporters to rank them in the top two spots on their ballots. The city's ranked choice voting systems allows primary voters to list up to five candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the new Yorker's first choice votes. Ranked choice tabulations, those are going to begin when voters top choices are eliminated. During the process, their support will get transferred to candidates who are lower on their ballots. The partnership, which is announced one day before the early voting begins, effectively turns Mr. Mamdani, and that is the state assemblyman and Mr. Lander. He's the city comptroller into something of a joint entry. They said at a news conference in Manhattan on Friday that they would campaign together and that they were proud to endorse each other because they had integrity and Mr. Cuomo did not. While the time says Cuomo is ahead in the polls, there are conflicting reports from Politico. Mamdani, the younger Democratic socialist who had been rising in the mayor's race, is now ahead of Cuomo in that one. With just two weeks until the Democratic primary. This is a new poll that was reviewed in full by Politico. Now, the survey conducted by Public Policy Polling for Democrat Justin Brannon's Citicom troller campaign, found Mamdani beating Cuomo 35% to 31%. And that's difference that is narrowly within the 4.1% of margin of error. So we'll see what happens here. But I love this because I don't want Cuomo back in that position. Not back. I don't want him in that position.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. And if you rank Momdani and Lander at 1 and 2 or 2 and 1 and neither of them get 50%, then that means all of the second place, whether it's Mamdani or Lander's, votes go to the person who's in first. So one of them has a better chance of winning. I think it's fascinating. Ranked choice voting.

[Dana Goldberg]

I do, too.

[Alison Gill]

All right, everybody, it's time for some good trouble. What are you guys doing? All right, everybody. Congratulations on reserving tickets to Trump's military birthday parade. Thanks to you. They were expecting over 200,000 people, but only got like 30,000. Because of that. Because of that, we got images like the massive empty areas where they Were planning on lining everyone up to get in. Right. I think the K pop fans did this in Tulsa.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yep.

[Alison Gill]

On the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre, when Trump had a hate rally there, they were expecting 100, 200,000 people. And, like, seriously, like, 14 people showed up. So this is a really embarrassing look for the administration. So well done there. Today is good trouble. The Department of Energy is trying to get rid of rules in section 504. They're trying to change the rules because right now there's a rule that new buildings have to be accessible to people with disabilities, and they want to remove that.

[Dana Goldberg]

What?

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. They're also trying to get rid of other rules that help disability accessibility. So make your voice heard and say no to these changes. You can send them a comment as part of an organization, and you can also send it on your own. And the deadline, the reason this is the good trouble today, the deadline is today, Monday, June 16th. And there's a fantastic website that will walk you through submitting a comment by the deadline today. They have instructions. They have language templates. They have everything that you need. So please click on the link in the show notes today and submit your disagreement with this rule change at the Department of Energy. That is your good trouble. Everybody stick around. We'll be right back with Christine Ahn from the Feminist Peace Institute. And then we'll hit the good news. Stick around. We'll be right back. Hey, everybody, welcome back. I am really, really honored today to be talking to the founder of Women Cross DMZ and a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Now, Women Cross DMZ is a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War and ensure women's leadership in peace building. So please welcome Christine Ahn. Hi, Christine. How are you? Good.

[C]

Thanks so much, Alison. It's an honor to be on your show.

[Alison Gill]

It's an honor to speak to you because of all the incredible work that you're doing. There's a couple of things I want to touch on today, including the Feminist Peace Initiative, Women Cross dmz, and then, of course, we'll talk about the feminist peace playbook that you put out in collaboration with some other great organizations and how that sort of dovetails with, you know, pushing back against Trump's militarization and military mobilization against peaceful protests and our First Amendment rights. So let's start with Women Cross dmz. Tell us about that.

[C]

Thanks so much, Alison. Women cross DMZ. Actually, a decade ago, in May, in 2015, I organized a historic women's Peace Walk from North Korea to South Korea. We crossed the demilitarized zone. It was 30 international women, which included Gloria Steinem. She was 80 at the time. She says it was the longest day of her life, and she was 80. And Nobel Peace Laureates, some really extraordinary women that have been really challenging the ever increasing threat of militarism in their communities. Whether it's Suzuya Takazato who lives in Okinawa, who has been fighting against the US Military presence in her country, Lisa Natividad from Guahan in Guam, against the massive military presence on her island. So it was a real coming together of international women who said, this is ridiculous. This is the world's most militarized border. This war needs to come to an end. It just ended in a temporary ceasefire, which has now lasted almost 80 years. And it's really time to shine a light on this really tragic division that has kept the Korean people separated, families torn apart, and really the insane militarism that is impacting all of our lives, our water. I live here in Hawaii. A few years ago, there was the Red Hill crisis that contaminated and poisoned 93,000 people because of these aquifers that contain jet fuel basically fell apart and totally destroyed one of the aquifers on an island. We live on an island. So it was an extraordinary act. And from that, Women Cross DMZ then set out. We said, okay, we did this. We brought international attention to the tragedy of the unresolved Korean War. What should we do next to actually bring an end to it? And so we did what women do really well, which is we organized. We organized. We launched a campaign, the Create Peace now campaign. Women mobilizing to end the war. We got the first congressional resolution, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula act, which was first introduced by Ro Khanna, the member from California, but has now since been introduced, reintroduced by Brad Sherman. I think at its height, it's now in its third iteration. We had, like, 53 co sponsors of the bill. I know that doesn't seem like a lot, but you got to start. And it's a tool for us to build the political will to really push the US and that's where I think a lot of people don't understand. They think, oh, the Korean War is over there. It's just between north and South Korea. But actually, in 1953, after three years of a really, you know, I mean, historians say it was the most brutal war in modern history. Four million people were killed in three years. And so, yeah, I mean, obviously there's so many consequences of the unresolved war. And the US As a signatory to the armistice agreement, has a responsibility to bring closure to this war. So that's what we're doing. We're pushing, we're building a movement in this country to bring attention to this unresolved war and really push our lawmakers to say, enough. It's time to. And you can imagine we're in a very complicated time because Trump has a thing with Kim Jong Un. But despite however we feel about this administration, this president, he did the right thing. He did by meeting our adversaries. And as complicated as it is in almost everything that I oppose about this president and this administration, I think there is an opening on foreign policy that we haven't seen and certainly under the Biden administration, where we saw his administration do very little to try to stop the war in Ukraine, tried to stop the genocide in Gaza. He is bucking a bipartisan consensus that says that engagement with our adversaries equals appeasement. I think that is such a very strong narrative by the Blob. And we have an opportunity to actually redefine what that means, what US Foreign policy could actually mean for this country, because it has such huge consequences, not just for the people, but who are on the receiving end of a militarized US Foreign policy, but our ability to actually build a just and good society at home. We think about how much money we invest in war and militarization in the Pentagon budget, and we see it now taking place on the streets of LA and the mass cruel, brutal separation of families by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. So sorry, Allison, that was quite all over the place. But Women Cross TMZ is doing amazing work. I did. There is a new executive director, Kathy Choi, a lawyer, civil rights lawyer, who has taken over the organization. And they just led an incredible delegation to South Korea for the 10 year anniversary. And, you know, the struggle goes on, the need to end the war and, you know, the consequent militarization of South Korea as a result of it. We need to, as women, we need to stop.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah, we need to stop. And that's the thing, right? We see a lot of these battles that really impact what we do here at home, overseas. We know about North Korea, South Korea, we talk about Ukraine. That's the tip of the spear for democracy and NATO. And if we spend money to help that, then we're defending democracy here at home. And we see this kind of almost North Korean like attitude with the Trump administration and the corporate media and the press secretary that you know, that stand behind him. Like, you know, there's a lot of echoes there. We've got this huge military parade that's happening on June 14, and we're all going to be protesting around the country. Almost 2000 now. It started at 500, 700, 1500. Now we're almost at 2000 events nationwide to kind of take attention away from what the president is doing with his militarized parade in D.C. that's going to cost tens of millions of dollars, and not just in what he's going to be doing, but the repair that we have to. The repair work that we have to do afterwards. And so talk a little bit now about this incredible feminist peace playbook that you put together at a press conference. You released it at the Capitol. It calls for withdrawing resources from militarism and reallocating them toward policies rooted in meeting people's basic needs. We talk a lot on this show about, man, $100 million, $50 million to this, just this parade and what that could do to actually help people in need here in our country. And I wanted you to, because I'm so excited about this playbook, and I want you to say, because you did this collaboration with some other incredible organizations. So talk a little bit about that and how it intertwines with Trump's militarization and mobilization of the military.

[C]

Absolutely. So we produced this playbook out of a feminist peace summit we organized in May last year at the University of Denver. And I mean, we organized it in, like, a few weeks, actually, and over 300 people registered to come together, because I think that is. I think that there's just this growing recognition of how much our lives are impacted by militarism. And I think that Americans have this intrinsic understanding of the danger of militarism, and especially in this moment where we're seeing kind of a fascist takeover of our democracy. But we felt like we have to do something. We have to kind of gather all of our different sectors. And so we started these conversations at the feminist Peace Summit. And then after multiple conversations with various aspects of our social movements, we produced this feminist peace playbook. We released it soon after Trump was inaugurated. And we did a launch event at the UN at the Commission on the Status of Women. The women. You know, it's an international conference that happens at the UN Every year at the csw. And I have to tell you, the international women that come from Africa, from Asia, from the Americas and Middle east, they were like, thank you. Because U.S. military, foreign policy impacts us in so many ways, and we really need an organized constituency in the US to address that. But then we're seeing, like, this rampant, massive buildup. I mean, you may recall, like Trump was saying, oh, he's going to end the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza. And I think that there is a, you know, a big segment of the US Population that believes that that is what he really intends to do, and he may be doing it in. In kind of unconventional ways. And I think that that is maybe another podcast.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, he wants to give away a bunch of Ukrainian money. It's all right, and put Yanukovych in charge of it. But I'll tell you, Christine, there's a Quinnipiac poll out today, immigration issues. He's got a 43% approval, 54% disapprove. Mass deportations. Only 40% approve of this militarized mass deportation effort. 56% disapprove. And on Russia, only 34% approve of his handling of the Ukraine war, Russia's war against Ukraine, 57% disapprove. And so, you know, as I think Mattow said on one of her shows, like, he took this calculated gamble that most Americans would like to see mass deportations and militarization and. And helping Putin, and. And that is just so off target. And this new Quinnipiac poll numbers are showing that disapproval. Pretty, pretty stark disapproval. When you think about. Normally everything's kind of 50, 50, but we're talking about negative, you know, down 11 points, down 16 points. Severe drops in his approval on these issues.

[C]

Absolutely. And, you know, the military parade, which is. I mean, when was the last time the US has had a military parade? It was actually after the first Gulf War, and before then, it was actually in celebration of World War II and the defeat of fascism. And what are we celebrating right now? I mean, on his 79th birthday, his birthday, right. Taxpayers, $45 million. But that is a drop in the bucket of actually the reconciliation budget, in which Trump and Republicans are pushing for a $1.1 trillion Pentagon budget. And if we actually look at how militarized that is, I mean, if you add the Pentagon budget and you add all the DHS and ICE budgets to increase deportation, detention, and these raids, that is fomenting so much violence and tearing apart of families, it actually accounts for 75% of the discretionary budget. That is how militarized our budget is. And that means that we don't have money. I mean, certainly there is massive tax cuts for billionaires, but that means that we are choosing whether we invest in more militarization, more surveillance over all of our lives, more of this kind of violence against immigrant communities and our communities, or we actually invest in the things that actually make us feel safe. And so that is what the feminist peace playbook is trying to do, is trying to shake us and say, this is our money, this is our taxpayer dollars we have. This is our moral. It's a moral document, and we should choose how that money is allocated. And we choose to invest in things that actually make us secure. And that is obviously not the agenda of this president or the Republican Congress right now. But we have to start building. And that's what this playbook does. It calls on various sectors, it calls on academics, it calls on activists, it calls on philanthropy to really say, we're in a moment, we're in a political moment, and we've been in a political moment because we've seen the Pentagon budget increase, but now we are in threat to our democracy, and we have to choose and we have to organize. And militarism is one thing that we really have to see impacting all aspects of our lives.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. And now we're now getting back to watching it all trickle down, from the military to our local law enforcement agencies. We've completely gutted the Civil Rights Division, the Department of justice, gotten rid of all of our consent decrees. Fortunately, I think Joe Biden sent most of our old military gear over to Ukraine, so there's not a lot left. It would been. Have. Have to be built, and because of our tariffs, we can't really build it here. So they're building it abroad. But we are going to see another mass militarization of local law enforcement unlike any other. And this was really drawn to my attention in the Corruptible Book written by Brian Kloss, where he talked about how power corrupts. And these tiny town police departments are getting tanks and strikers and all of this military equipment. So I, I think that, that, you know, talking about reducing or, or combating the, the military budget also comes with the implicit understanding that all that's going to trickle down to our local law enforcement at some point and being used.

[C]

Against citizens just for exercising our constitutional rights to free speech and protest. Yeah, we are in a dark hour.

[Alison Gill]

We are.

[C]

But also, I mean, I think the resistance is very inspiring, and I know that's what you always talk about in your news roundup, but I mean, I think the way that I have seen even mainstream media cover this, it's been surprising. And I think as one of the key pillars of a Democracy of civil society is media and journalists to push back on the narrative that is coming from this administration that this was some kind of violent insurrection. I mean, and you know, it's been really great to see Newsom and Bass really push back on that narrative and see the media kind of, you know, dismiss the absurdity of this administration's claims. And I actually saw this great buzzfeed article last night where they surveyed dozens of US military service people, both retired and active and across the board. Allison, their remarks were so affirming that the military is not putting up with this. I mean that they understand how dangerous the situation is and that they're allegiance is to the constitution. It's not to this self appointed king.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. And a lot of veterans are very upset about the revocation of temporary protected status for the Afghans here, the asylum seekers that helped us post 9 11. And it's starting to resonate. And so that's why this movement is so important. So let everybody know where they can find the playbook, find and follow you and get more information on the feminist peace initiative because I think it's incredibly important.

[C]

Thank you so much, Allison. They can go to feministpeaceinitiative.org you can find the playbook there. And please follow Women Cross DMZ, which is WomenCrossDMZ. And you can also follow me, BlueSky and X ristineann. And really this is going to take all of us to really turn this country around. I think we have to define a positive role for the US and the world and that requires moving the money from investment in war and violence into one of care, connection and cooperation with the rest of the world.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. Because that brings security.

[C]

It does. Thank you.

[Alison Gill]

Thank you. You get it so much. I mean we, you know, I've always said we are the ones we've been waiting for. So Everybody check out feministpeaceinitiative.org and follow Christine on ahn wherever you get your social media. And I really appreciate you joining us today. It's been eye opening.

[C]

Oh, your podcast is the best, Allison. Thank you.

[Alison Gill]

Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate that. And everybody, we have some good news from listener submitted good news that we need to get to but we do have to take a quick break. So everybody stick around. We'll be right back. Everybody, welcome back. It's time for the good news. Who likes good news Everyone. Then good news everyone. And if you have any good news confessions, corrections, you want to send all your photos from all of your no kings marches. We want to see your Favorite signs and your solidarity and everything, send those to us. If you have a shout out to a loved one, a small business in your area, some great community activism, a self shout out, maybe a shout out to a government program that's helped you or a loved one, send it all to [e-mail] and click on Contact to get your submission right on the air. All you got to do is pay your pod pet tariff, which means attach a photo of your pet. Dana, while you were gone, I got all the breeds right in one dog.

[Dana Goldberg]

Impressive. By the way, Allison also sent me a screenshot of this three and a half year old that says I say a lot on that podcast and I laughed my ass off. So if that little one is listening.

[Alison Gill]

I love you, Ms. Allison says. Rad, Dana says.

[Dana Goldberg]

And then they both say. Sometimes they both say, I love that.

[Alison Gill]

A three and a half year old said that to a grownup. That's fantastic. I feel like we've, we've created a permission structure here for moral courage.

[Dana Goldberg]

Oh my God.

[Alison Gill]

So, so hats off to that three and a half year old. But yeah, you could like. Okay, to be fair, it was only two breeds that I got in this one dog. You know what?

[Dana Goldberg]

Do not take away your achievement, please.

[Alison Gill]

But I sang a whole song about it. I was very proud. So, because we haven't got. I haven't gotten 100% right since we got that five dog one, that five breed one back in the day.

[Dana Goldberg]

That was a good day. It was a good day.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. So if you don't have a pod pet, though, you can attach a adoptable pet in your area. Let us know about that. We'll see if we can find him a home. Any animal photo off the Internet, we'll do. If you don't have that, we're doing bird watching right now, which can be an actual bird, or you and your family and friends flipping the bird to Trump and Musk Properties. And of course, baby pictures always work. You should just send your baby pictures anyway, even if you don't really have anything else to say. We love baby pictures and awkward family photos too, so send them to us dailybeanspod.com click on contact. First up from anonymous pronoun. She and her hi Ag and DG. I have a correction. But first, the good news. I'm the chair of Indivisible Nebraska Lincoln. Our pig farming governor activated the National Guard as a precaution before the protests. But it was really him bending the knee to the orange man by a show of authoritarianism. Despite this, our city turned out in huge numbers for our no Kings protest and Star City Pride Parade. Thousands came in a city of only 350,000. Everyone was peaceful, safe and super energized. Indivisible national did a fabulous job of supporting our event organizers and even called me individually when the guard was called to make sure that we had what we needed. Amazing. I have one note, one podcast. A while back I waited until after no Kings to submit. You said a couple times that everybody has baby or family pictures, right? It made my heart sink. This is a whole population of foster and refugee children and adults who have no record of their childhood years. Any photos they may have started with can get lost in moves, change placements, or sometimes they even get purposefully destroyed. I adopted my beautiful 11 year old daughter last year from foster care and she came to me without one single photo of her short childhood. I was able to get a couple screenshots of a Facebook profile with her in them, but no original pictures or documents. Even her name didn't follow her correctly during different placements and had to be changed with Social Security. Your podcast is the best out there. I listen to you faithfully. If it weren't for you brightening my morning, I don't know what I could. I could handle this regime. My daughter and I say orange all the time. Thanks for all you do. My pod pet tariff is a photo of my daughter's new kitten, Coco, and her with our dogs Harper and Wrigley. They make our family complete. Look at this beautiful little family.

[Dana Goldberg]

So sweet. Daughter's beautiful.

[Alison Gill]

Hey, and thanks for pointing out that blind spot, Anonymous. I'll keep that in mind and make sure not to say that again.

[Dana Goldberg]

Absolutely. This one's from Anonymous. Pronoun she and her hello lovely ladies. I am so excited to have something to share. I listen to you every morning and hearing the good news and good trouble stories always makes this current hellscape feel less lonely. I'm writing in to share about the success of our no Kings rally in Lancaster, which is actually pronounced Lankister. According this is Pennsylvania. Lancaster.

[Alison Gill]

Lancaster. Yeah.

[Dana Goldberg]

Yep. Lancaster. Lancaster. Our turnout estimates are around 4,000. I know you briefly spoke about Lancaster a few weeks ago. We're mainly known for being a rural farm county with a high Amish population, and while the city is always steady blue, the county is usually red. Our protest numbers are usually in the hundreds, occasionally hitting a thousand. But today was so inspiring with Philadelphia being just over an hour from us having the high turnout in the country with over 80,000 people, I think that Pennsylvania has shown that we are ready to show up for the rest of the country in future elections. I would say you probably did in the last one. This is just my introduction and a.

[Alison Gill]

Kind little, kind correction. Boston had a million people. Oh, turnout. Just to. We gotta. I gotta. Hats off to Boston there, but there you go. I mean, 80,000 is nothing to shake a stick, man.

[Dana Goldberg]

Seriously. As far as police presence, I'm also excited to report that I only saw one police officer today, and the only time he got involved was when a Trumper with a giant wooden sign in the back of his loud pickup truck started circling the block and antagonizing the protesters. We watched this officer walk into the street to stop the truck and tell him to move along, and we all cheered for some semblance of reason. I'm sharing pictures from the protest. My son with his own homemade sign standing with my grandfather, who has been protesting his whole life and who proudly held his sign today for over five hours. Also, my son holding my sign that says the only king I fear over a drawing of a king. Boo. The ghost bus from Mario Games. Oh, my God. For my pet tariff, I'm sharing a photo of cat Benatar.

[Alison Gill]

Love as a cattle field.

[Dana Goldberg]

Oh, my God. I signed up as a foster for baby bottle kittens during COVID but I knew the day she came home, she was never going to leave. She's now the chunky ruler of the house and all of her brothers, and I tell her every day that she's a princess and a qu.

[C]

Queen.

[Dana Goldberg]

Keep up the good work in all that you do. It does so much for so many.

[Alison Gill]

Look at this photo.

[Dana Goldberg]

This is awesome.

[Alison Gill]

That's great. The only kitten I fear is cute. Oh, got one orange leg. One tuxedo leg. That's an adorable kitten. Thank you so much for sharing. Now I have to know. It's like part tuxedo, part orange cat. How many brain cells does it have? You'll have to let me know. All right, next up from Anonymous, no pronouns. Good afternoon, Amazons of the Arabica. I like it. I just wanted to give a huge shout out to the organizers and attendees of the no Kings Day rally here in Ruby Red Nampa, Idaho. The turnout was huge for this little place I love. Like, at the beginning of the show, I'm like, I love all these little towns and cities, and now we're seeing all this. The turnout was huge for this little place, and the afternoon was uneventful, despite the Trump train who decided to drive past Roland Cole at Least twice. I'm sharing a picture from the rally as my bean bribe, so you can see for yourselves. There's also a pic of my handcrafted protest sign and one of my artistic director, Muffin. She's a rescue, so feel free to make up shit for her breeds. The running theory is Chihuahua Yorkie. Okay, great homemade sign. That's very creative. With the red plate to it is the no, no. The no sign for no Kings. Look at that. Look at all those people in that tiny community.

[Dana Goldberg]

That's awesome. People are fed up.

[Alison Gill]

Yes. So true.

[Dana Goldberg]

I love it.

[Alison Gill]

Oh, my God. This next sign.

[Dana Goldberg]

All right, this is from Elizabeth, Pronounced she and her hi beans Queens. I just attended my first protest this weekend, and, wow, it definitely won't be my last. It was so cool to see my community gathered to support the same cause. It brought tears to my eyes. These times can be rough. But I'm also very thankful to you guys and the people around me for my pet tariff. I give you Teddy and Archie. Teddy is the doodle on the left. Don't let his eyes fool you. He's the most bougie dog you will ever meet. Archie is the doodle on the right. We love him to pieces, but he isn't all right up there. Oh, my God.

[Alison Gill]

This. That dusty Cheeto sign just cracks me up.

[Dana Goldberg]

It's so good.

[Alison Gill]

Drawing of a Cheeto with Trump's face in the coif. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's fantastic. And I love the other signs, too. We're all people. Oh, fantastic. These dogs. He isn't all right. Isn't all right up there? That's so funny. All right, next up for Mitch Pronouns, he and him took my son to the no Kings rally in our little town of Leesburg. You guys, look. I'm Anati.

[Dana Goldberg]

This is awesome.

[Alison Gill]

So much. Didn't know what to expect, but we had a massive turnout of over 2000 that easily drowned out the half a dozen counter protesters. To my surprise and delight, two of the first speakers were friends of the Beans, Glenn Kershner and Mike Fanon.

[Dana Goldberg]

Oh, my God. How awesome.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. They got the crowd riled up. Fanon left the courthouse steps with a triumphant Donald Trump, and the crowd responded with the chant. Thank you, Mike.

[Dana Goldberg]

Nice.

[Alison Gill]

It was an awesome afternoon that reminded us that power rests with the people. Leesburg. All right. Glenn Kirschner, Mike Fanone, hats off to you. For podbet tariff, I present Toby. He and I have a bit of a nemesis relationship. I'm not allowed to pick him up, but he will occasionally let me pet him and will jump on my lap once every six months or so. Mitch, I have the same relationship with my cat Stove, so look at him. He's adorable.

[Dana Goldberg]

So sweet.

[Alison Gill]

Every single post here about no kings, y' all. I make my heart smile. Thank you. Thank you for sending these in. Yep. Please send more. Send it all to us. I want to know about your day on Saturday. You can send it to [e-mail] and click on contact. Dana, any final thoughts today?

[Dana Goldberg]

Not today.

[Alison Gill]

All right, we'll be back in your ears tomorrow. Don't forget to check out DG comedy on all your socials to check out the gay of the day. Thank you and yes, of course, because they are fantastic. Especially again, my favorite part. Well, I mean, they're all great, but that you on that unicorn maybe I.

[Dana Goldberg]

In a bikini on a rainbow unicorn. Floaty people. You get to see it after every episode. So if you're not watching them till the end, you're missing out on something incredible.

[Alison Gill]

Is it in my head or is there a pew sound?

[Dana Goldberg]

Yeah.

[Alison Gill]

Yeah. Okay, good.

[Dana Goldberg]

I'm flying off.

[Alison Gill]

Oh, man, it's fantastic. The spaceman goodbye. The old spaceman goodbye. That's an old inside joke from Jordan Coburn on the Mueller She Wrote podcast. All right, everybody, we'll be back in your ears tomorrow. Until then, please take care of yourselves, take care of each other, take care of the planet, take care of your mental health, and take care of your family. I've been ag. I've been dg, and them's the beans. The Daily Beans is written and executive produced by Allison Gill with additional research and reporting by Dana Goldberg. Sound design and editing is by Desiree McFarlane with art and web design by Joelle Reader with Moxie Design Studios. Music for the Daily Beans is written and performed by they Might Be Giants, and the show is a proud member of the MSW Media Network, a collection of creator owned podcasts dedicated to news, politics and justice. For more information, please visit mswmedia.com commsw media.